8C Redux: Alfa Romeo Sports Car Resurrected

Hybridization reaches Alfa’s flagship sports car.

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Alfa Romeo will revive the 8C sports car by 2022. The Italian brand revealed the pending return of the famed nameplate within a reveal of Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s five-year plan, in which the company also shared a handful of details about the slinky two-door.

Unlike the previous front-engine 8C Competizione coupe and 8C Spider roadster, the new 8C will come to market with a mid-mounted twin-turbocharged engine. As the 8 in its name implies, the forthcoming 8C is all but certain to feed fuel to eight separate cylinders, and we’d wager the twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V-8 used by Maserati will find a home beneath the sports car’s sloped rear end.

On its own, the Ferrari-built V-8 makes a healthy 590 horsepower in the Maserati Levante Trofeo crossover SUV. Alfa Romeo, however, promises the 8C will offer in excess of 700 horses thanks to the addition of at least one electric motor at the front axle. A lightweight carbon-fiber tub will allow the all-wheel-drive, gasoline-electric hybrid sports car to move with appropriate gusto, and Alfa Romeo claims a zero-to-62-mph time of less than three seconds.

FCA is mum on additional details, but we anticipate the low-slung sports car will formally show its face sometime after the turn of the decade. If the next 8C is anything like its predecessor, we can expect this new model to be produced in limited quantities and to cost north of $250,000.